Diffraction patterns etc - Rietveld Plot Viewers

Lachlan Cranswick ( lachlan@dmp.csiro.au )
Tue, 14 Nov 95 22:49:11 EST

>
> By the way, a point that really makes me mad is: Why are the Rietveld
> codes free shareware when you have to do a thousands of tricks to get the
> ready-fitted profile visible? E.g. FullProf (to my knowledge) does not
> support any ascii-plot format. The only tool I know to plot FullProf's
> results is DRX-Win, which you can buy for some 400 $.
>
> Wow - this is a long message! I'll have to be off for lunch with the group.
> I wait for answers.
>
> Greetings
>
> Carsten
>

It's been a while since I posted this - which may help.

Some other public domain Rietveld programs do have add-on software
to give viewing capability (i.e., DBWS, FAT-RIETAN)

GSAS has this capability integrated.

Cheers,

Lachlan.

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List of Rietveld Software for DOS/MS-Windows/PCs.

(Only software that allows convenient viewing of Rietveld
difference Plots have been included).

Summary List of Programs and "add-on" utilities so far :-

DBWS (DOS - Free)
DMPlot (DOS - Shareware Demo)
XPMA + ZORTEP (DOS - Free)
RIETCONV (DOS - Free)
FullProf (DOS - Free)
DRXWin (Windows - Shareware Demo)
RIQAS (DOS - Commercial)
GSAS (DOS - Free)
In-built Fourier viewing and manipulation
In-built structure drawing
SiroQuant (Windows - Commercial)
Quasar (Windows - Commercial)
FAT-Rietan (DOS - Free - Also Mac version)
ORFFE (DOS - Free)
ORTEP (DOS - Free)
DMPLOT (DOS - Shareware)
SigmaPlot (DOS or Windows - Commercial)
Convert (Windows - Shareware)
(Interconverts a variety of ASCII data formats)

Additions, Corrections, Comments welcome.

Lachlan.

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DBWS (Structure Refinement)

DBWS for DOS is available by contacting :-

Pf. Ray Young (ph268ry@vm1.gatech.edu)

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There is "shareware" visualization software for
viewing DBWS Rietveld plots. One is called DMPLOT
and runs in DOS (or MS-Windows/OS2) and is
available by anonymous ftp to :-

sol.dmp.csiro.au:/pub/xtallography/dmplot

The contact for DMPLOT is :-

Dr. H. Marciniak
High Pressure Research Center UNIPRESS
Sokolowska 29/37, 00-142 Warsaw, Poland

E-mail: marcin@iris.unipress.waw.pl

Dr Marciniak is responsive to requests - including
the addition of other Rietveld plot formats.
The latest version of DMPLOT can also use the
LHPM *.plt format.

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The "free" XPMA and ZORTEP suite of structure viewing programs
for DOS now allow the near direct visualsation of structures
refined with DBWS (and LHPM). ZORTEP is a user friendly, menu
and mouse driven ORTEP program.

A program called RIETCONV.EXE converts the DBWS (or LHPM)
input file into SHELX format - which can then be directly
imported into XPMA/ZORTEP programs for visualisation and
hard-copy output.

This program can be obtained by contacting the author,
Laszlo Zsolnai (e-mail V54@MVS.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE) who
can provide information on how to FTP the programs.
Dr Zsolnai is friendly to any suggestions on how to
improve his suite of programs.

A slightly out of date review of the program is avaiable
via the WWW at :- http://www.unige.ch/crystal/prg-xpma.html

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FULLPROF (Public Domain, Structure Refinement)

The FULLPROF for DOS Rietveld package is available by contacting :-

Juan Rodriguez-Carvajal
Laboratoire Leon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS)
Saclay
France

E-mail: juan@bali.saclay.cea.fr

An MS-Windows "demonstration" program for visualizing
FULLPROF plots is called DRXWin. This is available by
anonymous ftp to :-

sol.dmp.csiro.au:/pub/xtallography/drxwin

Any suggestion or comment will be welcomed and should be addressed to
the author, Vicent Primo by Email at :vicentp@vm.ci.uv.es or
FAX: + 34 6 386 48 58

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RIQAS (Commercial)
(menu-driven DOS program, including plotting, quantitative analysis
and batch processing).

Queries can be send to :-
Q. Johnson

Materials Data, Inc.
P.O. Box 791
Livermore, CA 94551
510-449-1084 (phone)
510-373-1659 (FAX)

E-mail : SGBW64A@prodigy.com

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GSAS for DOS

Menu Driven Integrated Structure Analysis and
Refinement Software of both Powder and Single
Crystal data.
(Free and available by anonymous ftp)

Includes :-

Structure and Quantitative Analysis
Neutron Time Of Flight Analysis
Single Crystal Structure Solution and Refinement
Multiple Data/Combined X-ray/Neutron Data Capability.
Para-magnetic and Ferro-Magnetic Structures (Neutron Data),
Rigid Bodies & Soft Restraints.
Uses - Integrated Fourier viewing and manipulation
- Structure Drawing.
Can Use Variable Step or Variable Count Time Powder Diffraction Data.
Graphical Hard Copy output to Postscript Printers

Available by anonymous ftp to :-

mist.lansce.lanl.gov:/dos/gsaskit.exe

Installation instructions :-

mist.lansce.lanl.gov:/dos/readme.dos

Manuals and tutorial in :-

mist.lansce.lanl.gov:/manual

Contact :- Robert VonDreele

E-mail : VONDREELE@mist.lansce.lanl.gov

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SiroQuant (Quantitative Analysis - Commercial).

Quantitive Analysis.

Sietronics.

(Contact Don Williams or William Gill)

Sietronics Pty Ltd
PO Box 3066
Belconnen ACT, 2617
Australia.

Tel: (61 6) 251-6611
Fax: (61 6) 251-6659

E-mail Don Williams on : donwasc@mpx.com.au

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Philips Quasar for MS-Windows.
(Commercial Quantitative Analysis)

Full menu driven Quantitative Rietveld Analysis software.
(Contact your local Philips Representative).

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FAT-Rietan For DOS - (and Apple Mac).
Free structure refinement software.

Includes Orfee and Ortep.

Anonymous ftp to :-

ftp.nirim.go.jp:/pub/sci/rietan
(202.17.63.11:/pub/sci/rietvan)

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As FAT-Rietan can output plots in a DBWS format,
the above described DMPLOT software is also compatable
with this software.

FAT-Rietan also outputs plot files in an ASCII complient
column format that is friendly to the SigmaPlot plotting
software (and thus any/most plotting software).

For information on SigmaPlot, email to : support@jandel.com.

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There is a shareware program written for interconverting ASCII
powder Diffraction data by N. Dragoe (E-mail : dragoe@imar.ro)
of the University of Bucharest - called "Convert"
for MS Windows. This interconverts
a wide variety of ASCII powder X-ray diffraction data
including GSAS, DBWS, Scintag, etc. It also has a
"factors" function to allow scaling and offset changes.

The present version can be obtained by anonymous ftp to :-

sol.dmp.csiro.au:/pub/xtallography/convert

If it can't exactly handle your format, contact the
author who should be able to help you and update the
software.

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